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A short history of luxury designer retrospectives – of Armani, YSL, Alexander McQueen, et al – and their more experimental counterparts illuminates 20th-century ideas of nation-building and fashion’s many possible futures.
What parts of online life can’t we see, and why? Eva & Franco Mattes’s largest solo show to date sheds light on the internet’s dark corners – and posits peer-to-peer ways out.
The author of Art Monsters (2023), which takes up women artists whose works reflect the experiences and insights of their own bodies, historicizes the stakes of the unruly feminine.
At Lenbachhaus, Munich, Charlotte Salomon’s monumental proto-graphic novel Leben? Oder Theater? chronicles the comic minutiae and sweeping tragedies of its author’s too-short life.
How do clothes “become” us? If the goal is to look effortlessly like ourselves, is style subtraction? In her August column, Joanna Walsh looks at what to lose when choosing minimalism.
In an age of burgeoning techno-feudalism, do artistic uses of kink aesthetics work as immunizations against societal violence, or do they amount to just another cope?
Andrea Bowers and Mary Weatherford’s duo show at Capitain Petzel, Berlin harmonizes their requiems of eco-grief while insisting on the power of simply taking note.
Wiener Festwochen’s new artistic director unpacks Vienna’s relationship with being provoked, making grotesque demands onstage, and the theater as a total democracy.
An exhibition at WIELS, Brussels, discloses that Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s perpetual-sunset sentimentality is no longer a provocation, but a favorite hue in the mood ring of pop.
